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Thanks steve.

I got the solution.

On ther other side, a lot of places restict the use of FORCE to storage and sysprog people.

Using the ‘DELETE GDG FORCE’ command causes migrated GDSs to become uncataloged, but not deleted. This data takes up space and will be billable to the data owners. From a storage view, it is better that there are no uncataloged datasets held in the MCDS, however a HSM audit will highlight these datasets and offer the code to delete the HSM entries. But, I just learnt that an audit can take up to 48 hours to complete...